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HEALTH AND SAFETY

GUIDELINES FOR

LEATHER INDUSTRIES

POST COVID-19

Preface

Leather Sector Skill Council (LSSC),

is promoted by NSDC under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship with an aim to focus on establishing an effective and efficient eco-system for development and imparting of skills for Leather related industries, thereby enhancing the employability of the Indian workforce

.

Leather Sector Skill Council (LSSC)

aims to facilitate a skilled ecosystem in the leather industry through capacity building for high productivity and compliance with global

standards

.

In our endeavor to continuously help industry, the Health and Safety guidelines prepared by LSSC is to provide practical guidance on Health & Safety norms to be followed by the professional workforce engaged in Leather and its product related business in India, post COVID-19 Pandemic. The exercise is aimed at minimizing the risk of further spread of virus and loss of lives.

P.R. Aqeel Ahmed, Chairman

CONTENTS

Introduction

What is the symptoms of COVID – 19 & how it’s spread?

Health & hygiene basics using visual management

Individual employee preparedness

Factory / work floor preparedness

During and after working hours

Transportation of workforce/goods preparedness

Annexure – I : Disinfectant chart checklist

Introduction

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

It has spread from China to many other countries around the world, including India, USA, European countries etc.,.

Depending on the severity of COVID-19’s international impacts, outbreak conditions—including those rising to the level of a pandemic—can affect all aspects of daily life, including travel, trade, tourism, food supplies, and financial markets.

To reduce the impact of COVID-19 outbreak conditions on businesses, workers, customers, and the public, it is important for all employers to plan now for COVID-19.

For employers who have already planned for influenza pandemics, planning for COVID-19 may involve updating plans to address the specific exposure risks, sources of exposure, routes of transmission, and other unique characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 (i.e., compared to pandemic influenza viruses).

Employers who have not prepared for pandemic events should prepare themselves and their workers as far in advance as possible of potentially worsening outbreak conditions.

Lack of continuity planning can result in a cascade of failures as employers attempt to address challenges of COVID-19 with insufficient resources and workers who might not be adequately trained for jobs they may have to perform under pandemic conditions.

What is the symptoms of

COVID-19 and

how it is spread?

Health &

Hygiene basics using visual management

Educating workers and all employees on symptoms and briefing them to report such symptoms to the Supervisors / Managers.

Ensure training of all employees and contract associates for Precautions against Covid-19

Common touch points such as finger print scanners, landline phones, door handles/ knobs, elevator buttons, light switches etc. should be avoided to the extent possible and care should be taken that face is not touched when touching such high contamination risk zones. Perform hand hygiene immediately after coming out of such places Educate employees on infection control and good personal hygiene during “on the job” periodically and during “Induction” of new joined employee

P

reparation of

1% Sodium

H

ypochlorite Solution

Sodium Hypochlorite – liquid bleach 3.5% available chlorine: 1 part bleach to 2.5 parts water

Sodium Hypochlorite – liquid 5% available chlorine: 1 part bleach to 4 parts water

NaDCC

(Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate

) powder 60% available chlorine: 17 grams to 1

Litre water

NaDCC

(1.5 g/ tablet) – tablets 60% available chlorine: 11 tablets to 1 Litre water

Chloramine – powder 25% available chlorine: 80 grams to 1 Litre

water

Bleaching powder - 70% available chlorine: 7grams to 1 Litre

water

Any other: As per manufacturer’s Instructions

As per WHO &

MoHFW

guidelines

Individual employee preparedness

Always use Face mask while transportation, work floor, Canteen, rest room etc.,

Always maintain social distancing. Maintain minimum one-meter distance with other human being at all directions

Minimum touch with article and human Being –no handshake.

Sanitize hands as much as possible

Sneeze and cough into elbow or into a paper tissue

Wipe down the workstations daily, especially if these are shared with another workers

Monitor your own health and contact a medical professional if you feel unwell and/or show symptoms of COVID-19 BEFORE entering the work facility or taking transport with other workers.

Factory /

Work

Floor Preparedness

Thermal scanning mandatory at the entry to the factory / workplace.

Arrange the machineries / equipment’s with proper distance (1.5 m Recommended).

Sanitize the workplace with sodium

Hypocholorite

solution on before shift starts and after the shift ends.

Optimize the factory layout for following social distancing / follow two batch system for workforce still this issue ends.Use separate cleaning equipment's for production hall, canteen, rest room, store room etc.,Supply sufficient PPE to the work force / cleaning workers.Set up an efficient and safe waste management system.

Calculate the increase in pricing for Precautionary measures and add that in factory overheads in advance.

During and

After Working Hours

Management should encourage workforce to follow the rules and regulation / Pre cautionary measures

Make hand washing and/or disinfection of hands mandatory upon entering and every hour during the working time. In between, hand washing and disinfection should be done when needed

Monitor the status of health and wellbeing of the workers when they enter the factory

Make sure grievance mechanisms are well established

Reduce the visitors to the factory to an absolute minimum and have clear protocols for receiving visitors.

Disinfect at the contact points of machines, especially if they are shared between several workers.

Provide workers with sufficient information about upholding health and safety measures as well as upgraded hygiene procedures at home.

Positively reinforce the individual responsibility for upholding all health and safety measures and the notion that this also applies during leisure time.

Ensure there is no compromise on health and safety aspects on our employees.

Transportation of

Workforce/Goods

preparedness

Most of our industries give transport facilities to the workforce.

So, Management has to implement the extended precautionary protocol in the transportation of workforce.

Must ensure the workers / staffs wear PPE like face mask, gloves etc while entering the vehicle.

Must ensure un wanted things like eating food, combing hair, make up etc., not to be allowed.

Make sure the 50% of vehicle capacity to be filled with social distancing during the transportation of workforce.

Discuss the possible gender-related issues that could occur due to the change in transportation patterns with the worker representatives and look for ways to mitigate

these

Annexure – I : Disinfectant chart checklist

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